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Free I Love Vegetable Gardening sticker
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11 gardening books to give a gardener for Christmas 2011
2011-12-12 19:25:00 Picking off a gardener from your holiday shopping list can be tricky. Do you buy them plants, gift certificates, tools, or gloves? What if they don’t like what you buy because it doesn’t appeal to their gardening styles? Well, garden books, for the most part, can help you avoid all of that because gardeners are... Read more »
Corny Chicago gardening
2011-10-19 16:16:00 I’ve grown corn in the garden before, not to eat it but or the decoration. Since corn is so subsidized in America it doesn’t seem prudent to grow it for sustenance in a small urban garden when you can buy it for 10 cents an ear at the grocery store or the fruit and vegetable... Read more »
Today is World Naked Gardening Day--Grab your Hoe!
2011-05-14 18:54:00 What better way to weed, hoe, plant flowers, or trim bushes than in the buff? According to the American Association for Nude Recreation, today is World Naked Gardening Day. The holiday was established in 2005 has gained world recognition. The rationale behind hoe-ing around your garden naked: "We figured that if people tried gardening naked once, they would smile," said Storey, who came up with the idea for the day with his friend, Daniel Johnson. "Not only would they smile, but they'd see that nudity is actually a pleasant and inherently good thing" ...Friend ... mmmhmmmm Would you do this? Well .... today it's a little cold in Chicago for these kind of antics. Could you imagine the looks on people's faces...
Chicago Gardening Events for May 2011
2011-05-02 05:22:00 May brings us a perfect opportunity to buy plants in Chicago for your garden during several plants sales. Organic vegetable seedlings, tomato plants, native plants and even plants for container gardens will all be available at several plants sale throughout the city. Below are dates times and plants available at plant sales for the Lurie Garden, Wicker Park Garden Club, Paseo Prairie Garden, Garfield Park Conservatory and the Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse. Stocking your garden with these native plants, organic and heirloom varieties has many benefits. The biggest being that you're supporting garden groups, community gardens and organizations that green Chicago. ...
Chicago Gardening Events for April 2011
2011-04-01 03:06:00 Showers aren't the only thing the month of April brings around here. There's two garden fairs and several events going on around Chicago that, you, as a gardener should attend. In particular I'd like to point you to the Green Metropolis Fair by Mindful Metropolis. I'll be part of the urban gardening panel at this fair, so, I'm hoping you can attend. Know of a garden lecture, garden fair, plant sale or workshop going on in Chicago that I should include? Leave me a suggestion in the comments. ...
Chicagoans Don't Fear Soil, Just Bad Gardening Advice
2011-03-15 20:38:00 The weekend that the Chicago Flower & Garden Show opened Mike Nowak had Michele Owens, of Garden Rant, on his radio show to promote her book, Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. Mike started the segment by giving the book and author high praise. Then irony reared its ugly head. Mike asked, "Why did you do the book...you must have found that garden writers weren't saying the right things." What followed was hilarious on multiple levels as the author flubbed the only two questions posed to her about gardening. The first was about the safety of soil in a spot where dogs have been pooping and about mulch robbing soil of nitrogen. ...
What Do Photography, Gardening, Bodybuilding and Blogging For Business Have
2011-03-01 03:21:00 They are all things that seem easy at first, but prove to require a developed skill to be successful. Photography: Buy a nice camera and point it at things while pressing the button. Easy. Gardening: Dig hole, place plant (or seed), replace dirt, add water, Miracle Grow® and sunshine. Easy. Bodybuilding: Lift a lot of weights, eat a lot of protein, consider supplements. Easy. Blogging For ...
Gardening as a Hobby
2010-09-22 12:35:00 After a long week of working in a dreary and stressful job, there is nothing that relaxes me more than spending some time working in the garden. Even if you might argue as to the amount of relaxation that it might give, owing to the work involved, I would still say that it is certainly ... Further information is good for read:Garden Statue – What Are Your Options? Have a beautiful garden planned? Well, does it have a pond or water garden and a miniature stream to confluence... What Makes Above Ground Pools the Hot Pick Private is now turning out to be a luxury that is now within the reach of average American families. Gone... Garden Water Fountains And Safety For Kids Just because, fiberglass swimming pool designs, you have children or frequent visits from children doesn’t mean you can’t have a...
Gardening in a Grow Box
2010-09-07 21:31:00 Deluxe Grow Box on the left, A Garden Patch's Grow Box on the right. I am simultaneously a lover and hater of gimmicky garden tools, especially items that purport to make gardening easier. Gardening is already easy, so a lot of garden products get a big eye roll from me. Whenever I heard gardeners talk about sub-irrigation planters like the Grow Box I had to roll my eyes. I mean, just how bad of a gardener do you have to be that a traditional container, or even a repurposed one, doesn't suffice? For a while I wondered just how easy this products made container gardening and growing vegetables. How much different were they from the DIY sub-irrigation planters I've seen gardeners...
Arnold Clarke wrote a new blog post: Things Needed For Gardening With Garde
2010-07-22 02:21:00 Arnold Clarke wrote a new blog post: Things Needed For Gardening With Garden Boxed - Dan Lipsky Shared By Dan Lipsky Important elements for a project of type are containers and plants. You can use almost any container size, so it is big enough to hold the ball of the plant with room to grow. Do not try to cheat and grow your plants in a container that is only just big enough to hold, ... Comments: 0
Gardening is a squirrely sport
2010-07-21 17:45:00 I thought I read a long time ago not to feed the bids and squirrels. It's a free country, but there are consequences to such things. Animal lovers are one thing(which I am), but talking to squirrels like pets and having them in your house is another. The garden apartment I live in is great! The landscaping is well kept, the flowers are beautiful and the squirrels are plentiful. I've noticed this strange abundance of squirrels lately and decided to investigate. Stay tuned to CSI:Jill. My neighbor across the street is the culprit. She stands on her balcony shaking her bag of nuts, attracting all the squirrels in the neighborhood. After she's done feeding them and throwing food on everyone's patio it's the neighbors that are...
Second Season Vegetable Gardening
2010-07-12 22:11:00 If you didn't start a garden this spring and wish you had grown some flowers, herbs or vegetables you still have time. Summer is a good time to start your second season plantings. You can sow seeds directly in the ground now for many leafy greens, root crops and even some flowering annuals.Planting seeds now will extend your garden's harvest into the fall and winter months. After the jump some recommendations on plants you can easily and cheaply start from seeds....
Traveling in Ireland - Teaching Children About Sustainable Gardening
2010-06-23 00:24:00 Shawna Coronado Traveling in Ireland - Teaching Children About Sustainable Gardening at the Bloom 2010 event.
Memorial Gardens: Beautiful Ways to Honor Those You Love While Gardening
2010-05-28 13:24:00 Planting loved ones in the garden. No wait. Planting flowers that remind you of those you love. Better....
Gardening Nude Goes To Ireland In Search of Green Inspiration
2010-05-28 00:00:00 Shawna Coronado, author of Gardening Nude Goes To Ireland In Search of Green Living Inspiration
Gardening in Mexico - Flamboyant Tree
2010-04-16 14:00:00 Six years ago, when we arrived in Playa del Carmen for the first time, I was struck by the beauty of a particular tree that seemed to grow prolifically in this tropical region. The Flamboyant Tree or Royal Poinciana is ablaze with fiery red flowers when it blooms, surrounded by delicate fern-like foliage. In the spring, when the leaves and flowers die off and drop, what remains is the skeletal structure covered with hundreds of large (often as long as 24 inches) hard seed pods. The seeds inside are often collected and used inside handmade percussion instruments or strung onto thread for necklaces and bracelets. Photo Credit: Forest Starr and Kim StarrFamily: FabaceaeGenus: DelonixSpecies: regiaCommon Names: Flamboyant Tree, Flame Tree, Peacock FlowerOrigin: MadagascarCategory: Tender Perennial, TropicalHeight: 20-40 feetHardiness: USDA 9b-11These are some of my favorite flowering trees and as I will be doing a lot of landscaping over the next few years, I definitely wanted to incorp...
Gardening Season begins in Chicago this Week!
2010-03-02 04:36:00 The gardening season in Chicago begins this week with the opening of the Chicago Flower & Garden Show on March 6, 2010. The show runs until March 14, 2010. For more information visit ChicagoFlower.comThe Midwest Gardening Symposium at The Morton Arboretum runs from March 5-7, 2010. A get-together with gardeners, plant people, and designers from around the country. Visit this page for information on presentations and sessions. This is the Lollapalooza of the gardening world in Chicago. Which of these two are you attending this weekend?...
ChicagoNow Radio on WGN - Gardening Nude's Fun Interview with Bill Nef
2010-01-24 17:44:00 ChicagoNow Radio on WGN - Gardening Nude's Fun Interview with Bill Neff
Go green with Gardening Nude
2009-12-31 18:36:00 Announcing the launch of Shawna Coronado's Gardening Nude on ChicagoNow.com
Review: Container Gardens 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening
2009-11-11 04:17:00 Last week a representative from Crown Publishing Group - Random House, Inc. offered to send me Container Gardens: 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening by P. Allen Smith to review. Since I try to include ideas for container gardening on this blog because many Chicagoans live in apartments or small spaces I agreed to take a look. What I thought was a small book on container gardens turned out to be a collection of container garden ideas printed (both sides) on tabbed cards that you can take with you to the garden center or nursery when picking out plants for your container gardens....
Urban Gardening Classes in Chicago Fall '09
2009-10-17 22:07:00 The Wicker Park Garden Club is hosting a number of lectures and workshops this fall and winter for those interested in learning about urban gardening. You can attend these in place of the urban farming classes around Chicago this fall if your interests in gardening don't extend to growing your own food.November 2nd 7-8:30 PMMidwestern Designers: Landscaping with Nature.December 7th 7-8:30 PMLandscape and Eco/PsychologyJanuary 11 7-8:30 PMDesigning a Native Landscape: How to Dispel Misconceptions & Avoid MisuseJanuary 16 10am-NoonPropagating Plants from Seeds and CuttingsThese lectures and workshops are held at the Wicker Park Field House - 1425 N. Damen. For more information about class fees visit WPGarden.org....
Weekend Gardening Chores
2009-10-09 23:42:00 Like always I'm waiting until it is really late in the season to start on my fall gardening chores. This weekend I plan to tackle several of them and get them out of the way. Today I'm bringing in my houseplants that are still outside, if you live in an outlying suburb of Chicago there is a frost warning, get your houseplants in before they are killed by the frost.The last of my peppers have been harvested today and with great sadness I've tossed the plants in the compost pile even though many of them are trying to set fruit and grow new leaves. Times like this that I wish I had a greenhouse or more precious window space. I'm...
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Chicagoland Gardening Magazine ISO Young Gardeners
2009-09-17 22:29:00 Are you interested in gardening and under 35? If you found an Ed Hardy t-shirt in your closet would you throw it in a compost bin before ever wearing it?* Do you and your friends use around buzzwords like "sustainability?"If you answered yes, then ChicagoLand Gardening magazine wants to talk to you. They're conducting a 35 and Under Garden Focus Group to help direct the magazine and garden dialogue in Chicagoland. You'll discuss edible gardening, ecology, sustainability, environmentalism.When: Saturday, October 17, 2009. A second meeting takes place in April of 2010.Time: 9:30 a.m to noon.Location: Chicagoland Magazine's Office. 915 Parkview BLVD., Lombard, IL 60148 (near I-355 and I-88)To volunteer for the Garden Focus Group send an Email with your Name,...
Wal-Mart Would 'Rollback' Cost of Gardening in Chatham
2009-08-04 00:38:00 I love Chicago's garden centers as much as the next gardener, but they are too far away from where I live to make shopping there convenient. As nice as they are the prices n. As much as I would like to support these independent garden centers it really isn't within my budget to do so all the time, especially in this economy. There is always mail order nurseries, but for residents of communities where check cashing places outnumber banks, and even grocery stores, that isn't really an option, either....
Butterfly Gardening
2009-07-07 05:01:00 Gardening for butterflies is a lot different than gardening to attract bees to your garden in Chicago. Butterflies need two kinds of plants; host plants that butterflies can lay eggs on and the caterpillars can eat on and nectar plants that butterflies can feed upon. To be honest, I never set out to attract butterflies to my garden, we both just happen to like the same kinds of plants. The following is a list of plants that I've noticed attract a lot of butterflies into my garden in Chicago....
Raised Bed Gardening
2009-07-06 22:03:00 This year I've been seeing examples of raised beds all over Chicago that make me wish I would have created raised beds when I started my garden. Instead of digging through hard clay to try to create a hospitable area for plants I could have built a few raised beds and saved myself some back breaking digging. While you usually see raised beds in vegetable gardens that can be used to grow ornamental plants too....
Indoor Gardening Flipped: The Sky Planter
2009-06-25 23:07:00 Patrick Morris has turned indoor gardening on its head with his revolutionary Sky Planter design, which allows plants to literally grow upside down.
Is this about gardening? Or politics? You decide.
2009-04-24 17:00:00 Everytime I turn around there's some new threat to what will eventually be my beautiful yard full of trees and bushes and perennial flowers. The latest aggressor? Bambi. Thanks a lot, cute little fawns.We live right near the "Pheasant Branch Preserve," which is great for jogging and walking and nature and junk, but not so great if you don't want a bunch of wildlife wrecking your yard. Between the raccoons that used to live in our shed and eat our roof and the fox that hunted on our front porch, I thought I'd seen it all when it came to animals. But now there's deer eating our plants and ravaging them -- plants that I spent nearly two bucks on. These deer are getting in the way of increasing my property values, which is in turn hampering the economic recovery, so it's clear that the fate of all of America rests in the hands of:Deer Off.Deer Off is the deer repellent I found to use in our yard. I had gone to a site to learn about deer control and see what information I c...
The Triangle Is Complete
2009-03-24 01:30:00 I am now happy to report that the FaceBook Twitter WordPress triangle is complete. It appears that the Twitter Updater is now functioning. This issue was rather peculiar in that for anyone with a FaceBook ID over a certain value the application simply did not function. This has been corrected ...
Organic, Urban Vegetable Gardening For Dummies
2009-02-11 12:00:00 For many people who live in a city but have agricultural roots, creating an urban garden or farm can be the best way to get that rural nostalgia back without ever having to leave the city. You don't need a green thumb to get organic produce right from your own backyard. My Farm creates and maintains organic urban gardens in the backyards of city dwellers, and for those a large enough green space, there's always Gardens-in-a-Bag.
Happy New Year 2009 from Gardening Tips and Flower guide
2009-01-10 18:02:00 Hello Friend! At the beginning of this year I want to say Happy New Year for all of you. I believe this New Year will fill with new bless for all of us. Yes I am sure God give us new bless every day.What are your plans for the New Year is 2009? I believe you have a lot of plans and wish for this New Year.Maybe one of your hopes is to renovate your home to be appearing more beautiful and wonderful than before. So do not waste time, take action immediately to enhance your home. The first action, you can plant new flower in your garden. You also can change your old mailbox with a new modern stainless steel mailboxFor your indoor room, repaint your room with new color and buy new furniture. You can purchase new fireplaceand accessories Whatever your plans and expectations, I hope this year will be better for all of us.
Merry Christmas Everybody!
2008-12-23 08:29:00 Sorry everyone but NBC have claimed copyright over the clip originally posted. As such I have replaced it with this alternative clip. Same song and artist.
Wear maternity jeans when gardening
2008-12-15 21:16:00 How many of you who love jeans? How many of you who wear jeans when gardening? I guess almost all of us ever use jeans when we do our activity in the garden. And I guess everybody ever wear jeans, when working in the garden. Jeans became popular around the world and today people wear jeans more than ever. Today people wear jeans more in public and also in offices.Do you still want and wish to wear your favorite jeans when you're pregnant? Regular jeans no matter how stretchy they are become very uncomfortable as your baby grow and become bigger in your body. Your body is changing shape and sizes along with your belly. Also if regular jeans are way too tight they can put pressure on the baby. Your pregnancy should be one of the happiest times in your life. And I’m sure you will not want to put your pregnancy in dangerous situation just because you want to look good in public. Maternity jeans can be the solution for you who want to wear jeans.Maternity jeans are now more fashionabl...
Gardening in the Winter
2008-11-11 18:31:00 No doubt we always think of springtime as the time for gardening. The birds chirp and all that stuff, the days slowly get warmer and our sleeves shorter. After being pent up indoors hiding behind frosted windows all winter we like to stretch our legs, venture outdoors and play in the dirt while we tell ...
By: I Will Not Die
A Design Invention That Stands Gardening On Its Head: BOSKKE? Sky Planter
2008-11-10 12:50:00 Is that a real plant? I've heard of hanging plants before, but never saw suspended in the air upside down. It must be an optical illusion of some kind...
An Update At Last
2008-10-27 16:14:00 Well it has been an eternity since i felt like blogging or indeed that interested in the Web in general. Yes, my bi-annual dose of internet apathy has struck. This morning I find myself, again, unable to sleep and surfing the web looking at nothing in particular. So I decided I should ...
An Update At Last
2008-10-27 16:14:00 Well it has been an eternity since i felt like blogging or indeed that interested in the Web in general. Yes, my bi-annual dose of internet apathy has struck. This morning I find myself, again, unable to sleep and surfing the web looking at nothing in particular. So I decided I should ...
Forcing Bulbs Indoors
2008-09-24 10:00:00 Have you ever smelled paperwhites? I'm talking about the tiny little white daffodils that are also called paperwhite narcissus. They have such a lovely clean white scent that if you've smelled them once that's probably all I'd need to mention to get you to plant them.They're a bulb that's easy to "force" (or force to bloom) indoors and they're a winter bulb which is why I'm mentioning it now.If you buy a bag at the store (they should be popping up in stores about now) you can be guaranteed pretty little flowers in time for Christmas by following a few easy steps.1. Prepare ahead of time. The bulbs take approximately 8 weeks to bloom, give or take, so if you want a beautiful Christmas arrangement you need to be buying bulbs next month.2. Buy the bulbs--paperwhite narcissus or amaryllis are the easiest for the holidays. Those are my favorites for winter and the amaryllis can be very dramatic in pink, red, white or striped. I grew some last year you can see here.3. Plant...
By: Scribbit
Landscaping / Gardening in Sacramento Resource
2008-08-19 15:24:00 If you're one with a particularly green thumb, you should know that landscaping adds on an average 5% increased value to your home. I'm trying to find the basis for where I read this little nugget of information, but am unable to right now. So you'll just have to believe me. :) Landscaping, especially of the front yard adds curb appeal which will make people stop and notice. You want buyers to notice, don't you?One resource I found invaluable in Sacramento is Angela Pratt's website SacramentoGardening.com - not only does the site have valuable information about what to plant and prune in your garden this month, it also has a list of nurseries in Sacramento and coupons for purchases of plants.Remember, all gardening - like real estate - is local. So be sure to check out the site before you plant!
Keyhole Gardening
2008-07-17 02:33:00 Spotted this over on Monkeyfister, the keyhole garden. An innovative idea that could help you grow your own food. Some observations: I wonder if you could pry the cellphones and Ipods away from Americans and get a happy level of participation as shown in this video? Somehow, I sort of doubt it. The rusty cans was interesting, ...
Bonsai Gardening Secrets
2008-06-21 21:59:00 I’ve received an email from Tony P asking me for detailed advice on how to produce a nice looking bonsai. He is completely new at it and does not want to spend a lot of money on an old one and would prefer to do it himself. In his words tell me all ...
By: Bonsai Art
Gardening A Pastime Continued For Centuries
2008-06-09 04:50:00 Plants were here long before people or animals were. While earliest man supplemented his staple diet of animal meat with gathered nuts and berries, people of later ages learned to cultivate crops to feed more people more reliably, leading to the more diverse diet we enjoy today. Because man’s new knowledge of plant propagation freed a great deal of time he had previously used for survival, he began to find many more uses for plants. One of those uses, gardening, filled the need both for decoration and recreation. A prime example of this pursuit is seen in one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Gardening as a pastime continued throughout the centuries. Asian cultures spent hundreds of years developing plant-based cures for diseases. Plants and herbs formed the entire basis for Chinese medicine. In addition to utilizing plants for their curative properties, Asian cultures revered them for their beauty, as well. Both peonies and maples, found...
Gardening As Exercise - How to Lose Weight While Gardening
2008-06-08 16:00:00 Candee Stark from GoingAllTheWeigh.com shares an interesting way of exercise: How to Lose Weight While Gardening How to Lose Weight While Gardening Have you ever dreaded the idea of pulling weeds, planting a tree, or pushing a lawn mower around the yard?Does just thinking about it make you sweat? I am sure the majority of are nodding your heads in agreement. What I am about to suggest only takes a slight change in your thinking and a bit of planning and you can learn how to lose weight and get in better shape while gardening this year.For those of you that are already gardeners, you know that gardening is one of the best ways to get exercise More posts about "exercise" from Weight Loss ArticlesTime For Exercise - Top 10 Tips For Finding Time For ExerciseWeight loss and ExerciseExercise without equipment, flabbiness to happiness for freeExercise-what You Should KnowFoolproof Exercise Program because it involves all of the muscle groups in your body.Like I mentioned earlier, we...
By: Diet and Fitness
Gardening Can Mean Good Exercise [video]
2008-06-08 10:00:00 You may not realize it, but for every tulip bulb you plant and every leaf you rake, you're also burning calories. Related posts:How to Lose Weight While Gardening [link will be updated soon]6 Exercises to burn fat you need to knowExercises with treadmillExercises to flatten lower absExercises That Can Be Done Anytime, Anywhere Remember to subscribe my feed to get latest posts.
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Planning Space Helps Vegetable Gardening Be More Productive
2008-06-08 00:00:00 One outdoor hobby that can be rewarding is vegetable gardening and the type and amount of plants you tend can help with meal planning throughout the year. Different plants have different times to reach maturity and some will require different spacing, but they all require food, water and air. Making sure they receive all of ...
Free Gardening Tips EBook
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